cmd.exe is surprisingly more powerful than a lot of people realize
though I still personally abhor it.
-jkl

May be so, but you can't do things that you take for granted in Unix,
like running multiple commands in sequence with a semicolon. And, as
far as I know, the "system" function in most Win32 compilers does not
try to invoke a command interpreter, it just runs the program
specified, with arguments.